Axle-skein



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HEBRMANNv PETER HERRMANN, OF EVANSVILLE, INDIANA.

AXLE-SKEIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,681, dated April1s, 1882,

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of Vanderburgand State ot'Indiana, have in vented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wagon-Axles, ofwhich thefollowing is a specification,reference being had therein to the acvcompanying drawings.

1o This invention has relation to carriageaxles;

and its object is to provide a simple, light, and' inexpensive axle, andat the'same time one that will possess the greatest strength and lessliable to break than those of ordinary construction; and the noveltyconsists in the construction of the same, as will be hereinafter morefullydescribed, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings :similar letters ot' reference indicatelike parts of the yinvention.

Figure 1 is a side View, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a section throughthe line x x, and Fig. 3 is a similar view through the line y y.'

A is the ordinary axle-bar of wood.

B is the thim'ble or skein of sheet metal, cut to the properform whilein the sheet. It is then rolledvto the desired size, with a strongshoulder, C, at the end of the wheel-box, and 3o a shoulder-ring, D, isthen driven on the thimble B at this point. A short piece of round iron,E, is inserted in the outer end of the thimble und welded there, andupon this solid portion a thread, a, is cut for the nut o. The ears Fand G ofthe thimble B encompass the axle-bar A and extend sufficientlyYalong the top and bottom thereof to receive the bolts I and J, by whichmeans the thimble and axlel bar are made perfectly rigid, and the upwardstrain which the axle sustains in hillside travl 4o eling is thoroughlyprovided for, as well as the ordinarysstrain ot' the load while goingover level ground.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and useful,and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. Thel sheet-metal thimble B, ears F and G, and shoulder U, made in onepiece, in combination with the ring D, constructed as and for` thepurpose set forth.

2. TheA sheet-metal thimble B, having ears F G and shoulder C, incombination with the ring D, stud E, and nut c, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures 55 in presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN HERRMANN. PETER HERRMANN.

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PAUL BEYEE, FEED. HERRMANN.

